Donatello Losito (1940 - 2008)

Donatello Losito

Donatello Losito was an Italian-German painter, graphic artist and object artist. 1955-1958 he trained as a plasterer and restorer. Traveling through France and Italy in 1959/1960, he created his first works in oil and watercolor. Initially he worked as a freelance graphic artist, later he devoted himself entirely to painting. He held solo exhibitions and participated in numerous exhibitions. His main artistic work was created during these years. In 1972, the art critic Helmut Kotschenreuther wrote about the first major solo exhibition: "Losito has an eye sharpened by sensitivity for the grotesque, the comical, the uncanny, the inhumane in our desolate world and at the same time the ability to present the most concise, the "impacting" to find a pictorial formula”.